Base SAS: SAS^® Management Console

What is SAS Management Console? The SAS Management Console offers a standardized, common management tool that enables enterprises to support many technologies from a single point of administration. This client application utilizes an extensible plug-in architecture, allowing you to customize the console to support a wide range of administrative capabilities.

Why is SAS Management Console important? The SAS Management Console provides a single point of control for managing the enterprise intelligence creation process including ETL, storage, business intelligence and analytics. By leveraging one administrative interface, the console requires less training time, reduces the number of steps involved in administration, and provides an opportunity to uphold standard operating procedures and minimize manual work by enabling repeatable processes.

For whom is SAS Management Console designed? The SAS Management Console is designed for IT managers in departments looking to overcome the software management issues imposed by current business intelligence software implementations.

Key Benefits

• Manage your intelligence infrastructure more easily. Rather than using a separate administrative interface for each application in your computing environment, you can use SAS Management Console's single interface to perform the administrative tasks required to create and maintain an integrated environment across multiple platforms.

• Manage authorization information from a single facility. SAS Management Console allows you to create, manage and maintain authorization information for your users and groups in one place. This authorization facility ensures that access to metadata resources is controlled centrally, easing the implementation of a corporate security strategy.

• Reduce administrative support costs. Centralized creation and management of definitions and connections for servers in your environment provides a transparency to your back-end operations. As a result, end-users don’t have to be trained and updated on the physical location and access information for your data. SAS Management Console allows you to easily manage metadata resources across multiple platforms. Centrally managing repositories with one tool allows you to provide a common method of searching and managing distinct collections of metadata while enabling sharing of metadata across applications.

Key Features

• A single point of control for performing all administrative tasks for enterprise intelligence applications. The SAS Management Console can be run from an administrator’s desktop system, yet it can manage the resources on all SAS-supported platforms.

  This single interface provides centralized management of:

  • Resource access control policies. This feature provides the ability to grant access to resources by users or groups and assign attributes to protect those resources.
  • Library and server definitions. Logical names for libraries and servers can be set up by the administrator.
  • Metadata repositories. From within the SAS Management Console an administrator can manage the creation, replication and promotion of repositories from his or her desktop, eliminating the need for the administrator to be located near the servers.
  • SAS licensing information. The SAS Management Console provides a location to discover installed SAS products and look at license information, such as which SAS products have been installed, who installed them, where they were installed and when the license will expire.
  • Technical and business metadata. The SAS Management Console provides for centralized organization and management of all significant business and technical metadata. The console also works with XML-generated metadata, predefined processes and tasks and business metadata.

• A wizard-driven approach guides users through almost all tasks, easing and speeding the management of enterprise intelligence architectures and reducing the cost of management and maintenance.

• An extensible architecture allows customers and third-party vendors to write plug-ins for extending and customizing the capabilities of the console using the included developer’s kit.

SAS Management Console is a component of Base SAS software.